Word: nonetheless
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...back of a lecture hall. Battery life is estimated at five hours of TV viewing, but we here in TIME's Techland managed to squeak out more than eight hours on our first go-round. Mileage varies based on signal strength and battery conditioning, but we were impressed nonetheless...
...FAIL people" honorees, including "opposite-marriage" enthusiast Carrie Prejean and birth-giver extraordinaire Nadya Suleman, a.k.a. Octomom. (Voting opened before news of Tiger Woods' philandering first broke and ended just as the fourth of his myriad alleged mistresses went public, but in a late surge he nonetheless earned an honorable mention.) Claiming the top spot on both the FAIL moments and FAIL people lists is Kanye ("I'ma let you finish") West. (See a video of Ben Huh, patron saint of FAIL blog...
...UC’s decision to censure its vice president was bold and unprecedented—but necessary nonetheless. Since it passed major internal reforms in 1995, the UC has never censured one of its members. Thus, we applaud the council’s use of this constitutional provision despite a lack of precedent. It provided the proper forum to show disapproval for McLeod’s actions, which included authorizing an inappropriate email that was sent from the ucpres@fas account. The message’s premature and unproven accusations were distributed in negligence of UC and EC procedure...
...scorer from a year ago, who suffered a high ankle sprain in the team’s third game. After the weekend’s contest against Miami, Sanders told Goodman that he did not expect to return until the Eagles’ game against Rhode Island on Sunday. Nonetheless, the Crimson have been preparing as if Sanders will be in the lineup...
...Case studies include that of a multinational cosmetics firm that decided to hire a highly qualified international marketing executive who interviewed in a headscarf - "from Hermès, but a headscarf nonetheless," the book notes - despite reservations about the covering censoring her own beauty. Another details the case of an airport-security company that dismissed a male employee who walked out of meetings to pray and refused to interact with women. One of those situations was ultimately judged acceptable, while the other was deemed disruptive enough to justify dismissal - and it isn't difficult to see which was which...